Centrica has announced huge 6-monthly profits today (27/07/22), with them making £1.34bn to the month of June compared to £262m for the same period last year. This follows the news that Shell announced a £9bn profit for the last quarter.

Inevitably Centrica bosses have defending the huge rise in the face of possibly one of the worst cost-of-living crisis for at least 50 years.

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But Centrica chief executive Chris O’Shea defended the decision and insisted a lot of the firm’s profits were “going back into society”.

“I know it’s difficult to see the word profits, or dividends, or similar words when people are having a tough time. I’m very conscious of this,” he said.

“Bear in mind, over the next couple of years we are expecting to pay a windfall tax of probably well over £600m on our UK gas business off the back of the profits that we’re seeing, so a lot of this is going back into society.”

Well that’s alright then!. And I suppose if you’re a small shareholder the extra dividend might just be enough to pay for the expected 74% price cap rise for electric and gas at the next review in October, courtesy of toothless OFGEM – a company who has now decided to review the price cap quarterly rather than twice a year effective, from October.

Private businesses have every right to make a profit, otherwise what would be the point. But where does one draw the line during troubled times such as this and companies such as Centrica/Shell “exploiting” the situation with profits that could be seen as excessive!

Is it morally right for CEOs and other boardroom members to be rewarded with excessive pay rises/bonuses while millions of householders face a budget squeeze?

Whatever the rights and wrongs news announcements such as this won’t go down very well with a lot of people.

BBC News Link

Nominated by: Technocunt

Update: BP has also announced massive profits. in the last quarter they made just under £7bn – their biggest quarterly profit in 14 years.

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Just when you thought modern life could not get any more absurd, we now have ‘outrage’ and woke arseholes ‘literally shaking’ because of an “offensive” word in a new song lyric.

That’s right pop pickers, the output of da moosik biz is now being monitored for “ableist” slurs, reports the BBC:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-62376575

A number of questions race through my simplistic little brain. I didn’t know “ableist” was a thing. Is it? Since when has new pop releases been subject to such scrutiny? Who has the time or inclination to sift through the lyrics of every new release each week looking to be offended? The hurty word is only referred to as “the S word” (so we’re doing that now are we?), so I’m guessing it was “spastic” or a derivative thereof? It wasn’t that long ago we had The Spastics Society and those coin collection figurines outside shops of a little girl with leg braces. Not seeing the problem here.

Since we’re in the territory of policing song lyrics and demanding reparations, apologies, public floggings, etc. how about we also go after all the black/rap “artists” who continually use the “N word” in their lyrics? The same lyrics which also promote promiscuity, violence, killing police officers and partaking of illegal substances? Hmmm….thought not.

My favourite quote though was from some random bellend on Twatter called Stephen Callum (yeah, me neither, but he does state his preferred pronouns – quelle surprise):

“Language is such a complex thing and words can validly mean different things to different people, but I don’t see why any artist would use a word in their song that causes so much upset to millions worldwide.”

Brilliantly defeating his own argument in a single sentence. Classy.

Nominated by: Imitation Yank

With a second verse from Chuff Chugger

The ‘offensive’ word used was Spaz, which in Blick language is ostensibly used in a colloquial way to mean going crazy or wild, which is derived from “spastic”

The lyrics in question were: “Spazzin’ on that ass, spaz on that ass.”

All a load of fucking shite bollocks

Emergency cunting for dumb public cunts who run or cycle alongside athletes on pavements during the marathon, triathlon or events held on public roads.

The other day I sat down to watch the Commonwealth Games marathon and triathlon events. During both spectacles I watched two daft cunts, both with phones in hand, run alongside athletes on the pavement as the individual athletes approached to take selfies and, I’m guessing here, put on social media under “Look at me running along with this athlete like a cunt”.

Back in the day I represented Scotland at international level in a team sport and at our best we gained a European silver medal and came 7th at world level.

I trained hard, it took four years of hard work to get to that level for the Europeans and worlds (and no – no government funding as we were classed as an amateur sport – funded it myself, don’t get me started… £25k of my own money…..) and did not appreciate cunts running alongside me, and asking for selfies when I was training.

Simply, when I see these daft cunts run or cycle alongside an athlete it makes my blood boil as I have a sudden urge to smash each one hard in the face. It is a mixture of vanity, disrespect, and utter annoyance. From someone who spent 12 years at international level don’t run beside athletes on open roads. Cheer them on instead you cunts.

Nominated by: Raiders of the Lost Cunt

Emily Crossing, a social worker from Oxford, who complained about an arcade game in Weston Super Mare

MSN News Link

A shoot ’em up type arcade game which had been around for years, has now been removed after the arcade owners rolled over to this whiney snowflake, even though this was the only complaint received, plus the silly cow doesn’t even live there. Still as one person commented, at least the native red Indians in Weston can now relax.

Nominated by: mystic maven

Barry zuckercunt is pissed off with Crossing also

I give you emily crossing. Another super woke cunt who can find offence in a arcade game.

While on the grand pier she spots a cowboy and Indian game and surprise surprise is shocked and horrified by the blatant racism.

Emails the company and as usual the company buckles instead of just telling her to do one.

Long story short company removes said game and the permanently offended win again.
So one emily you are a joyless cunt and the grand pier boss you ain’t far behind

Metro News Link

Neom doesn’t exist yet and there is a real possibility that it never will. You see Neom is a high-tech futuristic city being planned in Saudi Arabia and is the brainchild of its ruler, Mohammed bin Salman.

Stretching along the Red Sea coast it will be 170km long, home to smart technology, net zero eco bollocks and home to about 9 million people with two robots for every person performing everyday tasks, with the aim to reduce Saudi Arabia’s dependence on oil and to diversify its economy.

Neom New Link

Being described as like something out of Blade Runner it will have flying taxis, a ski resort, shops, restaurants, homes, offices, green spaces, airport and rail link to get from one end to the other in 20 minutes. It all sounds very fanciful but who will build all this?

We know the petrodollar billionaires of the Middle East don’t do hard labour so I guess it will be down to the desperate and poor of South Asia once again and the exploitation that comes with it as the Qatar World Cup stadia and glittering skylines of Dubai and Kuwait City will testify to.

Since robots will be doing all the day-to-day stuff who is going to live here? Tech entrepreneurs? Social media influencers? The sort of cunt who drinks a veni spice latte with two pumps of cinnamon dolce syrup and sleeps on a beanbag half the day and calls it work? Isn’t that Silicon Valley? Blair, Soros, the Obamas and the Swedish schoolgirl truant, I bet they all have their eyes on a penthouse. I assume the Saudis will still want a bloke wearing a tea towel and pyjamas to cut of heads and hands to retain the human touch and enforce law and order.

I suppose I should be objective over this. Its in Mankind’s nature to build the biggest, best, fastest and tallest, to keep inventing, innovating and evolving. The Great Wall of China or the Pyramids of Egypt would never have been built, no space travel, Titanic or Colosseum would have been realised.

I don’t know. It all seems a bit too elitist and sterile and I don’t think the world is ready for flying taxis and robots while billions still cannot feed themselves or access clean water. A bit like a futuristic Los Angeles from Demolition Man where you are fined for swearing and thought crimes, the police are useless and everyone is a woke pussy…I mean that could never happen…..oh hang on.

Did I mention this is going to cost $1Tn and the crown prince wants this completed by 2030! The name Neom comes from the Greek word neos meaning “new” and the Arabic mustaqbal meaning “future”. I wonder if they have a translation for white elephant?

“Encouraging a more sustainable living” and “seismic changes in the way people will live in the future”. Mmm. I quite like my little village in Lincolnshire thanks Mo.

Nominated by: Liberal Liquidator

(Will these glittering towers have their own artisan-made country cream gates? Day Admin)